Ava Trevella is an artist currently based in Ōtepoti, although recently completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam. Her practice is studio-led, using the medium of paint to explore themes of self, matter and place in different intensities and on different levels. Her work looks to the smaller lives of animals, the poetics of the human every day, and the various atmospheric spaces of inhabitation encountered in waking and sleeping states.

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